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Case Study: HIPAA Concerns Push Network Security Solutions

A federal regulation forced a medical center to lock down privacy, which coincidentally increased savings.

IBM and Microsoft Crank up the Pressure on Rivals

IBM and Microsoft made significant data management-related announcements last week

Microsoft’s Performance Management Powerplay

Software giant announces a new performance management complement to its 2007 Office System that draws on assets it acquired from ProClarity.

Tableau Preps Next-Gen Data Viz Tool

Orgs are increasingly hip to the importance of data visualization, especially as an enabling technology for analysis, Tableau sez.

An Rx for Business Intelligence Success?

Buying BI technologies before taking stock of the business lay-of-the-land is a lot like putting the cart before the proverbial horse.

Cut Data Integration Time in Half with Automation Heuristics

That which cannot be automated might make us stronger, but cutting data integration time in half can hardly kill us.

Podcast: Testing Distributed and Composite Applications

Best practices for testing composite and distributed applications



Why Colleges Fail the Privacy Test

Most college Web sites lack online privacy policies. What does that say about their ability to secure people’s private information and to avoid data breaches?

SHARE-ing: The Secret of Big Iron Success

With the revitalization of the mainframe and the rise of zNextGen, SHARE itself has been revitalized. (First in a series)

Careers: Where the Jobs Are

Not being business savvy could become a resume liability as time goes by

How Vista’s Arrival Will Affect the Security Market

Vista’s arrival will shake up the $3.6 billion Windows security market. Here are the implications for IT managers.

Experts Urge Restraint When Rolling Out Enterprise Information Integration

Some experts worry that EII—which helps enable painless connectivity to disparate data sources—has the potential to be easily abused.

Data Access: Just One Aspect of Enterprise Information Integration

Remember virtual warehouses? Is that what enterprise information integration is about?

Microsoft Gains Ground in RDBMS Foot Race

Microsoft grew its share of the relational database market in 2005—even though its BI-laden SQL Server 2005 release didn’t ship until late last year.

With Next-Gen Office, Microsoft’s BI Ambitions Soar

We take a look at Microsoft’s business intelligence aspirations and try to separate fact from FUD. First in a series.

Cracking the Code of Data Protection

Storage consolidation into a SAN is often a code word for re-centralization, a strategy based more on nostalgia than necessity—or benefit.

Monitoring VoIP Communication: Five Key Measures

Five key measures to monitor to address infrastructure problems.

Podcast: Wikis in the Workplace

How this popular consumer tool fits in the enterprise

IMS at a Crossroads?

Far from expanding their use of that DBMS, analysts argue customers need to start planning their migrations now

Beware Active Microsoft Word Vulnerability, Rogue Browser

Microsoft moves to patch a “zero-day” Word vulnerability. Meanwhile in a first, a new worm arrives bearing its own browser—the better to launch drive-by download attacks.